The play of
Dijana Pavlovic gives insight into the almost completely unknown Swiss genocide
of nomadic Jenish people, through the life of Mariella Mehr. The program that was
run by the government until the ‘70ies teared families apart, women were
sterilized, children bore compulsory treatment in order to ‘cure’ their nomadic
genes – the aim was to raise the members of a community that had been deprived
of their human rights as ‘normal’ Swiss
citizens. Although the state apologized 30 years ago, the details of the
program were made secret for 100 years, the teachers, doctors and organizations
– amongst them Pro Juventute Stiftung – have continued their work without interruption.
What can a schoolgirl do to fight injustice? What do we look for in pedagogues? What can we do for our children to be taught of equality and accepting each other in school? In primary school, I always sat in the first or second row. I hated it! I always wanted to sit in the last row because there, I could have been next to the window watching the whole class. From time to time, some of the "worst" boys were seated next to me. The rules for table plan were the following: 1. bad students sit next to good students 2. if you are a good student and do something wrong (which happened to me quite often) then you will get a Gypsy next to you For a few days or for months, it depended on the scale of the punishment. I liked those boys because they found this process unfair, too. I had three seatmate by this method in the first four years of primary school. When teachers realized that this seating arrangement was no problem for us and we even made friends, I ...
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